How Many Characters in One Set of Stats

[Mike W]

Ok, so like I said on the other thread. This is based on a creative writing exercise. The idea is to show how the same set of Stats can yield a series of completely different characters. Assume a Fantasy Hero like setting. I'm not going to balance this to 150. That's not the point. Just look at the given information and write a short bio/personality of a paragraph or so for what you see. Let's see how many different characters we can make out of one set of stats.

 

STR 15

DEX 18

CON 15

BODY 13

INT 13

EGO 10

PRE 15

COM 14

PD 5

ED 5

SPD 3

REC 10

END 30

STUN 29

 

WF: dagger, long sword, bow, crossbow

Languages(Spoken): common(4 points, lit), elvish(2 points), orcish(1 point)

Ride Horse 8-

Streetwise 13-

Seduction 12-

KS: Herladry 8-

KS: History 11-

KS: Plants/Botany 12-

Tracking 12-

PS: Animal Husbandry 8-

 

Ok guys, have at it.

[ghost-angel]

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A King's Huntsman:

 

Korwic grew up in the Kingdom's capitol, when he was 17 the King went to war. Korwic signed on with the army and went out off to war. He quickly proved himself capable in war and was assigned to a scouting group. The small group acting mostly independently as they moved through the land Corwic picked up enough Elf to interact with their scouts and just enough Orc to know when to run. They also helped the farmers of the Kingdom as they went. At the end of the war Corwic returned to his home in the Capitol where he was assigned to the king's personal detail of huntsman. He settled well into life with the royalty, enjoying his job as one of the king's personal huntsman and guards.

[Dust Raven]

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Malkarth is a Knight of the Silent Sword, a knightly order of peacekeepers and lawmen. Orphaned as a child, he was raised in a small elven village by one of the hunters/rangers. Coming of age much quicker than the elven children, he set off to find his place in the world among his people while still in adolescence. He befriended Sir Yiltholk, who taught Malkarth the ways of the Silent Knights and intrduced him into the order.

[Shike019]

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Renduil the mysterious half-elven ranger.

 

Growing up among humans, Renduil never fit in so he took to the forests to find his comfort. Through his explorations, he learned the ways of the woods. Renduil, now 25, acts as a lone guide, hunter, and general protector of the woods. No one knows his past, but everyone want to.

[prestidigitator]

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Just thought I'd go off the deep end a little.

 

Kiblich the Cursed

 

Kiblich is the unfortunate product of orcish sadism and elvish xenophobia. His elvish mother was raped by an orc warrior during a raid. Being of strong will and strange character, she refused all herbal and magical, "remedies," meant to terminate the pregnancy. Perhaps she should have heeded others' warnings, for she died horribly during childbirth, leaving a healthy baby among a pack of xenophobic but unhasty elves.

 

Perhaps due to their procrastination over the decision of how to kill the baby, or perhaps unwilling to give up an outlet for their normally suppressed aggression (giving them their characteristic, "peaceful," reputation), the elves allowed the child to live, although his growth was flavored with a most un-elven stain of cruelty and torment.

 

Many things elven could not but help to wear of on the child, though his anatomy is not well-suited to speaking the language or sensing the fine emotional nuances of most of its speakers, and certainly no one ever attempted to actually teach him anything directly. Used as a servant of sorts for all kinds of occasions, he eventually learned--through keen wit and careful observation--enough of what he needed to escape his tormentors; he then fled into the forest on the first horse he could steal.

 

Kiblich (elven for 'cursed') eventually found a human settlement where he was treated with mere disdain rather than utter contempt and cruelty. He survived through resourcefullness, strength of character, and a remarkable nimbleness that allowed him to escape many desperate situations. As he slowly accrued some decent acquiantances through all the various odd jobs he worked to survive, he found that he made friends with relative ease once those could be found that did not brood too much on his appearence, and in fact had a natural understanding of social relationships and connections. Finally, a language he could speak; a culture he could respect and study with enthusiasm!

 

Kiblich is curious about his orcish relatives; he has managed to pick up bits and pieces of the language here and there, and has run into a few historical clues that might help him discover to what clan and tribe his father belonged. He is now intent upon following such clues. After convincing an acquaintance to teach him the basic use of a few weapons, he is ready to set off on his search!

[Gadodel]

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'Mikew' appears to be the Baron's favorite stable boy. They talk about politics and history while riding horses or hunting. They appear to have a lot in common. What no one knows, save the Baron; is that 'Mikew' is also a skilled assassin. Poison is his method. Over the last 10 years, he has killed 14 of the Baron's rivals. Each of those deaths have had the appearance of being carried out by one of the Orcish tribes to the north.

[Dust Raven]

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Kiblich the Cursed

Kiblich (elven for 'cursed')

 

There's a mountain in Arizona called Table Mesa. There's also a street named Green Verde. For some reaon, poor Kiblich reminds me of them...

[prestidigitator]

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Hey, what's wrong with redundancy? Besides, there are also one hundred and thirty seven other meanings to the word in elven, depending upon intonation, so it is helpful to be precise for everyone but a native speaker (although he himself can't pick out all the different meanings, he has a rough idea and has had the lesson pounded into him--literally--more times than he can count).

[garou]

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Garlom - Garlom grew up as a young lad in the country, where he learned some of the skills typically needed to survive. Although he was indifferent to livestock of any sort, he did find interesting the various uses of plants, and was a gifted natural tracker.

 

His size, speed and good looks, however, forced him to leave his small farming community when he inflicted serious harm on another lad (using a hay hook that happened to be handy) in a fight over a village lass. Garlom fled before authorities arrived, never learning that he was exonerated.

 

Garlom has arrived in the city fairly recently. Lacking marketable skills in such a locale, he has quickly falled into using them as a low-grade bute, assisting various highwaymen and cutpurses who need a little extra muscle on the job. He has quickly leaned how the underworld works, and has learned to recognize some of the heraldic signs, so as not to inadvertantly pick on the wrong target. Garlom feels bad about it, but also doesn't see much of a way out. He knows that he doesn't have the theiving skills to make it on his own, but he also lacks the skills to becomes a hired sword. He'd go back to farming, or perhaps work for an herbalist, if the chance were given him.

[McCoy]

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Glam the Changling

 

An infant when Orcs slew his family and carried him off to slavery or worse, his captors were in turn slain when they passed to close to the elvish woods. His foster parents raised the mortal child as an elf. He was trained in weapons, tracking, history, and plant lore. His strength and dark exotic looks also made him a novelty with the long lived elves, and they instructed him in the arts of love as well.

 

One day while hunting, he saw a Man. The sight of another Mortal was like a plunge into a cold pool, and it was as if he was fully awakened for the first time in his life. He never returned to his foster-parents, but followed this stranger to be with his own kind.

 

He is clearly human, but is dressed and equipted like an elf, and speaks the Common Tongue with a slight elvish accent. His exotic air makes him better looking than the average man, and more commanding as well. Soon (when he gains some XP) he will discover he can sing, and take up a musical insterment. He will start translating the elvish songs and history he knows into the Common language, and begin making a living as an entertainer.

[JmOz]

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They call him "swift", he can be found at a local bar, usualy in the company of a pretty girl (half the time an elf for that matter). If you have a problem, and you approach him with respect he may help you out, but if you try to bring grief to him or his friends, or his favorite watering hole...well it won't be the first lesson he had to teach

[Sean Waters]

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Ever played Golden Heroes?

[Lord Mhoram]

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This one is a little dark for my tastes, but it was what came to mind.

 

 

The one who is now known as Raven was orphened when she was 12, and lived on the streets for a short while, when the local thieves guild/underworld took her in. She was originally going to trained for normal adolescent thieving, but then she started to bloom (so to speak); she was something of a beauty and so the orginization sent her to a brothel to be trained. She didn't especially care for the work, but she got taken care of, somewhere to sleep and language training. Until the day the Orc came in, and she was chosen - she balked, and the Orc cut her*, and she was turned out - where she was discovered by a local druid, in the city for an errand - who saw something else there, and took her under his wing, to teach her the ways of the wilderness and the world that she was not taugh about by the guild.

When the time came to choose her new "druid name" she chose raven, because of the color of her hair.

 

* give her a DF scar and assume her COM was 16-18 before.- part of backstroy.

[Mike W]

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The character I was originally thinking of when I put the stats together went something like this:

 

Jared was the son of a frontier noble. He was given tutors but despite a natural aptitude didn't study much - outside of history, which he found mildly interesting. Instead, he spent a lot of time with the huntsman, hunting and wandering the woods. Since they often enounter elves and fought orcs, he picked up a bit of each language. Things were well for Jared, until he got caught in a compromising position with the young daughter of another frontier noble. At which point, it seemed prudent to leave while things quieted down and the other lord had time to cool off. So he hit the road adventuring, slowly gravitating toward larger and larger cities to lose himself in. His ready sword, sharp wit, and natural charm have served him well with both the ladies and his employers(some of which were not, strictly speaking, reputable but when a man's purse is empty he sometimes has to take distateful work in the morning in order to buy dinner in the evening).